For your viewing pleasure, should you choose to click on it, the progress for the last two months in video format. Dun dun dun!

https://youtu.be/f5X0lJV3H18?si=PSaPGoD3z4mnfYxG
TLDW; I put together a solid foundation for the 3 class abilities for both the mage and the warrior. I need vfx and maybe some new animations, but all the hard work for the way everything works is done.

I went ahead and added the ability descriptions to the skill tree panel so you can see the weapon damage output of each skill and read the tooltip for what to expect from them.Doing so involved adding so many new variables to the hover system that I was able to revisit the skill tree and create passive conditional skills, as well as being able to modify the abilities any way I can think of. It's turned into a pretty robust system.

Once that was out of the way we turned to the inventory page update! This involved replacing all the placeholder artwork with custom images from the artist. It was fun coming up with both the stat icons and the new icons for the inventory items. The weapon icons are also dependent on the character class you play as. Just had to get that little detail in there.

The artist also got a lot of really cool portrait artwork done. Look how pretty Vae came out! We have tons of these. So once we come around to the dialogue system update all that artwork will look closer to this quality.
March was a little slower since I had to much going on at the day job. My time was limited from working too many long hours and all I got done in March was further refinements to the abilities by letting them apply debuffs to struck enemies. Currently I have a debuff for slowing movement speed. That all works and applies some minor vfx as feedback.

TLDR; We made a lot of really cool stuff and we are in full swing with the RPG mechanics!

Thank you all for waiting patiently while we work! I know it takes a while, but we really are a small team of indie developers giving it our all and your support means so much to us.

Some work was done in January! Quite a few errors were made and fixed, but the bulk of the work involved making a new animation graph for the warrior character! You can see the devlog here, and listen to me ramble. Or skip the video for the tldw;
I already have a rather complex (tbh I lack anything to compare to since this is my first rodeo) animation graph for the mage. I didn't feel the need to duplicate it or create a new one from scratch for the warrior. So I ended up reworking what I had to enable the single animation blueprint to switch between character classes automagically.


This is important because, as you can see below in the original concept art, the warrior uses a pointy stick known as a trident instead of magic to defeat his enemies.

How about that concept art though? I had at first thought of him as being more human. However I turned away from that and had the artist create something totally new based off the earlier guidelines I had when making the mage.
I like this new design MUCH better. I wanted to make sure he fit with the mage and the redesign helped me focus the world lore a little more. I'm excited to start sharing some of that information with everyone when the time comes. Till then I will continue working on the game itself.

Speaking of that. Please keep in mind that everything shown on the screenshots and videos is a work in progress. I'm not entirely sure the game will end up looking like that. I have confidence in the new models that we are working on behind the scenes and there is a lot of quality of life things that aren't added yet also. Mostly vfx and sfx stuff here and there is missing. I do primarily focus on the gameplay functionality right now.

I like to keep all the pretty art to myself! Mwahahahahha. (j/k I'll share it later on)

Don't be a stranger! Let me know what you think if you have any questions hit me up or just hit wishlist so I know you're out there. I've got to get back to work on the game, the special abilties won't prototype themselves!